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fields, he, or any high chief, will send their men, and 
Jiao (seize) the greater part of them, without making 
any remuneration to the injured parties. 
Besides the sums which the king receives from the 
land, and the monopoly of the trade, in live stock and 
other supplies furnished to the shipping at several 
ports in the islands, the revenue is augmented by the 
harbour dues at Oahu. Every vessel anchoring in the 
outer harbour pays sixty dollars, and eighty for enter¬ 
ing the basin, or inner harbour. Till within two or 
three years, it was only forty for one, and sixty for the 
other.* The pilotage, which is a dollar per foot for 
every vessel, both on entering and leaving the harbour, 
is divided between the government and the pilot. 
Another singular method of taxing the people, is by 
building a new house for the king or some principal 
chief. On the first day the king or chief enters it, the 
chiefs and the people of the neighbourhood repair 
thither, to pay their respects, and present their gifts. 
Custom obliges every chief to appear on such occa¬ 
sions, or expose himself to the imputation of being dis¬ 
affected : and no one is allowed to enter without a pre¬ 
sent of money, The amount is proportioned to their 
rank, or the land they hold. Some chiefs, on such 
* The demand for these dues originated in their unprofitable 
voyage to Canton in 1816. The cargo of sandal wood was sold, 
but instead of a return in cloths, silks, &c. the vessel came back 
nearly empty, and in debt. The king inquired the reason; when 
the captain, a very incompetent person for such a business, told 
him, that some of the money had been stolen; that so much was 
demanded for pilotage, coming to anchor, &c. as to leave nothing 
for the purpose of fitting the vessel for sea, which had occasioned 
the debt. “ If,” replied the king, “ that be the case, we will have 
a pilot here, and every vessel that enters the harbour shall pay 
me for anchorage.” 
